[list.british-cars] Some people!

ejd@iris.brown.edu (02/26/90)

mjb writes:
Boy, I don't know about the Miata, or at least the folks who buy them.  This
past weekend it was NICE.  Warm, sunny, with temperatures in the mid 50s.
I was really really wishing I had at least ONE of these doll-garn Tee Arrs
running[...]
I saw two new Mazda Miatas.  They BOTH had the tops up.
Sigh.
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Well, ya can't generalize from two drivers, now, can ya.  I for one know of
one or two owners who can't get enough of driving with the top down at any
opportunity over 40 degrees F - Bell's Palsy be damned! :-)

But then again, there're a LOT of exceedingly prissy Miata drivers out there,
too.  Don't know how good they have it - lots of fun with a minimum of hassles,
and none of those funky SU or Lucas apparati to need tweaking right when you
need the car for a date or something.  Why, I even know a woman, in Cupertino 
of all places, who had the nerve to tell me that it was 'just a little too
cold' to drive without the roof --- WHEN IT WENT UNDER 55!!!!  Sheesh! She
grows up with MGBs and a Spridget of her own in Philadelphia, then moves to
California, gets a Miata, and her brain turns into guacamole.

55?! 55!!! I'd KILL for 55 degrees right about now.

Maybe I'm the exception to the rule for M-drivers?  Heaven help us.

ed

mjb%hoosier@cs.utah.edu (Mark Bradakis) (02/26/90)

Boy, I don't know about the Miata, or at least the folks who buy them.  This
past weekend it was NICE.  Warm, sunny, with temperatures in the mid 50s.
I was really really wishing I had at least ONE of these doll-garn Tee Arrs
running, so I could sport about with the top off.  But no, I had to resort
to taking the camper shell off the truck.  Just isn't the same.  But what
really amazed me was I saw two new Mazda Miatas.  They BOTH had the tops up.
Sigh.

mjb.